Caches No’s 3082 to 3103 – Fryston Woods & Maker Madness

Geocaching.com had put out a message that they wanted people who were expert hiders of caches to hold ‘Maker Madness’ events to pass on their insight in hiding caches on to others. Now I don’t hide caches but my friend Ian – PrinterFixerMan does and he decided to hold one of these events… so I decided to show some support and go along.  On my way to the event I thought I would go and have a walk round a cache series near where he lives… basically a trial to see how I was recovering from the debilitating trapped nerve in my back – I had only found 8 caches previously in 2014 and none of them more than 10 yards from Tarmac ! So a steady 4 mile walk along reasonable footpaths would be a suitable next step. Continue reading

Caches No’s 3077 to 3081 – Some New Local Caches

As I have said on many occasions previously I’m not interested in FTF’s so I don’t bother dashing out for new caches, and when 2 caches popped up down in the town I didn’t pan on going to find them, I thought I’d just leave them until next time I was down there… but 15 minutes later another one appeared just 400 yds from my front door so I thought it would be rude not to go and find it… Continue reading

Caches No’s 3073 to 3076 – The “Real” First Caches of the Year

At the end of January I suffered from a trapped nerve in my back, not sciatica like in 2011 but a different nerve cluster. I guess it is because I spent January sat down hiding indoors instead of doing any exercise but anyway there was a week where I could hardly move at all (coudln’t even roll over or get out of bed without a lot of effort and pain) and another week where I could hardly stand up let alone walk… So caching wise February was a complete write off – fortunate that I filled all the dates in on the calendar last year then !
My caching stats say my longest ‘slump’ was 81 days without a find from 17/11/2009 to 06/02/2010… This time my slump between finding caches really was from 14/12/2013 to 07/03/2014 – 83 days, but because I went to the pub once in that time it doesn’t appear as my longest slump Continue reading

Cache No. 3072 – GC4WB3C 23.01.2014 A FEW DRINKS

January 2014… the wettest January since wet weather began or something like that anyway. At least living on a hill we were spared the flooding that affected the entire South of the country (well 20yds either side of the Thames but as far as the media are concerned that is all that matters.
Anyway with my well known dislike of being out in the rain, and even worse dislike of caching in the mud the new caching year got off to a very slow start…

23rd January 2014 – 23.01.2014 A FEW DRINKS GC4WB3C – cache #3072
My first cache of the year… When the weather is cold, wet and windy (or indeed snowy as it was earlier today) I do prefer caches that are to be found inside a nice warm dry pub !
After chatting about winter tyres it was quite funny to be sliding around on the icy roads on the way home

Caches No’s 3045 to 3071 – The Omega Series

Another Facebook call out was for people to walk round the Omega series of caches near Silkstone (Barnsley) before the Christmas Corroboree event… As it was although many people talked about coming the threats of bad weather put some people off, so in the end it was just Godfairies (Steve), Goldfish58 (Carina) and myself who met up for the walk… Continue reading